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JAN. 17, 2011 This really could be the beginning of the end for the state’s redevelopment agencies, those noxious, corporate-welfare-enabling entities that have wreaked havoc on property rights in California since the 1950s. The new governor’s budget plan would eliminate
Read MoreBusiness Meets The Legislature
JAN. 17, 2011 By KATY GRIMES The era of big-government Republican legislators appears to be changing. In the November election, California voters elected several political novices to represent them at the state Capitol, and it appears that this happened for
Read MoreSounds Like California
John Seiler: Wikileaks’ recent release of a cable from the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia supposedly led to the downfall of that country’s government. The cable actually looks like it could have been written about the government of another state enjoying
Read MoreWalters: California Stagnating
John Seiler: CalWatchDog.com has been online now a little more than a year. If there’s one theme we’ve had, it’s that California is stagnating due to too much regulation, taxation and general foolishness by an out-of-touch government. For example, here’s
Read MoreThe Loss of Mourning
Katy Grimes: Watching the “memorial” of the Tucson shooting victims killed by Jared Loughner earlier this week was a flashback to the Wellstone Memorial – an event supposed to be somber and sad, but ended up getting hijacked by Democratic
Read MoreWill State Pay For Special Elections?
JAN 14, 2011 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The best current estimated cost for Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed special election on whether to extend tax hikes another five years is roughly $70 million. Given recent history, counties across the state will have
Read More'Ideal' State Budget Forecast
JAN. 14, 2011 By KATY GRIMES On Thursday the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees got a dose of happy budget talk, and a hopeful economic prognosis, from the state’s Finance Department. But not everyone was buying the rosy outlook. Newly
Read MoreBrown Refuses Minor Pension Reforms
JAN. 14, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Gov. Jerry Brown is coming into office with a lot of highly publicized and some praiseworthy activity, as he pushes ahead what he calls an honest budget, free from the usual gimmicks, and makes
Read MoreThe Rube Goldberg Budget Machine
JAN. 14, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Governor Jerry Brown’s newly released state budget can be analogized to one of those Rube Goldberg cartoon machines. While Brown’s proposed state budget is a long overdue step in the right direction toward reducing
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